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’60s civil-rights movement made
minister ‘conscious of injustice’
BY WENDY JEFFCOAT
THE GAMECOCK
A USC professor spoke about
his experience in the 1960s civil
rights movement in a lecture
Wednesday night at the Thomas
Moore Chapel.
Carl Evans, a religious studies
professor and ordained United
Methodist minister, said his expe
rience in Selma, Ala., in 1965 made
him more aware of the privilege
he had because of the color of his
skin, while others struggled for the
basic right to vote.
“I think it made me more con
scious of injustice,” Evans said.
“And more passionate to work for
justice in other arenas besides
Selma ... to include justice for
women, gays and lesbians, for the
poor, economically disadvan
taged.”
Nearly 30 people gathered in the
chapel to hear Evans’ personal ac
count of the real dangers of the
movement. He was part of the
Ministers’ March that took place
March 9,1965; he marched with
Martin Luther King Jr. that day
and saw the strength with which
everyone marched.
He also saw the violence and
the “sea” of police officers who
waited, ready to oppose the
marchers. Evans told the group of
a close encounter he had when he,
three other young white men and
a young black man left the Selma
Montgomery March and headed
back to Selma on Highway 80.
. Evans said a car with bright
lights on followed them closely and
that he later learned the Ku Klux
Klan had been patrolling the high
way that evening. On March 25,
1965, the same day Evans had his
close call with the KKK, a white
housewife was murdered as she
and a young black male, taking
protesters back to Selma after the
march, traveled on Highway 80.
“The struggle for something as
basic as the franchise (right to
vote) was earned through a long,
difficult struggle,” Evans said.
“And that must not be forgotten.”
Students who attended the lec
ture said they enjoyed the oppor
tunity to hear first hand what
happened during the civil-rights
movement.
“I thought it was a wonderful
experience,” said Erin Burfield, a
fourth-year psychology student
from Fort Mill. “It’s really good to
get a personal perspective on the
civil-rights era because it brings
the message home.”
Stephanie Lareau, a second
year chemical engineering student
“I was surprised that a professor at this school
had first hand accounts of the civil-rights
movement. And it gave me a much clearer
perspective of the dangers involved in
participating in the movement.”
STEPHANIE LAREAU
SECOND-YEAR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING STUDENT
from Charlotte, agreed.
“I was surprised that a profes
sor at this school had first-hand ac
counts of the civil-rights move
ment,” she said. “And it gave me
a much clearer perspective of the
dangers involved in participating
in the movement.”
Gaurav Scroff, the pastoral as
sociate at the St. Thomas More
Catholic Church, said the
Christian community needs to get
past being content with the way
things are and work to make
things better.
“The Christian community —
we get complacent with the way
things are,” he said. “We have to
constantly work to change the way
things are in society, to make
things more in line with the
Gospel, with the word of Jesus
Christ.”
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BRIEFLY
'Sorensen will visit
the GMPfor lunch
President Andrew Sorensen
will be in the Grand Marketplace
for lunch-Monday from noon to 1
p.m. Students are invited to stop
by, and say hello and talk with
him.
USC chooses new
athletics delegate
USC has chosen its new facul
ty athletics representative to the
j Southeastern Conference and the
National Collegiate Athletic
Association.
Russ Pate, a former chairman
of the Exercise Science
Department at the Norman J.
Arnold School of Public Health, is
the school’s associate dean for re
search.
Pate said he was “honored to -
have been asked by Dr. Sorensen
to serve in this important role.”
Horton
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ory that I recall such a tragedy
happening this way,” Luna said.
“The university remains con
cerned about all students’ safety.”
He urged stu
dents to “use
common
sense and
caution” in all
they do, both
on campus
and' in the
world.
While Luna encourages stu
dents to be aware of possible prob
lems around them, he said that
since the accident, USC has done
its part to make sure the campus
and residence halls are safe.
“Obviously, as a result of this
tragic accident, we wanted to
check and make sure that our
windows were operating proper
ly within the building codes,”
Luna said. He said that after they
were inspected by the proper offi
cials, the windows were deemed
fit within the specific guidelines
of the building codes.
Despite this, Luna said stu
dents should be continuously
aware of safety and security is
sues in the residence halls and
throughout campus.
“No safety pro
gram is infallible,”
Luna said. “We en
courage students to
maintain a safe en
vironment. We
want to hear from
students about
safety and security
problems.”
McKinney agreed that safety is
an issue for everyone. “Safety is
one of those things you think
about every day,” he said. “The
university has been evaluating
safety issues in light of that.”
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Since the accident,
Housing has checked
windows on campus
and found them to fit
the building codes.
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with President Bush, said he
would wait to determine Iraq’s in
tentions and whether the letter’s
language “is an indication that
they are going to play games.”
Bush, who has threatened a war
against Iraq if it fails to comply
with the inspectors, wouldn’t com
ment on the letter. But he again
warned that he had “zero toler
ance” for any Iraqi attempts to
hide weapons of mass destruction
and said a coalition of nations is
ready to force Saddam to disarm.
The letter from Iraqi Foreign
Minister Naji Sabri, which noted
that Iraq’s agreement comes dur
ing the Islamic holy month of
Ramadan, called the U.S.-British
coalition a “gang of evil” and said
the Bush administration had in
spired “the hatred of the peoples
of the world.”
Some diplomats said the fiery
language might have been aimed
at Arab audiences, who oppose
U.S. military action.
Iraqi U.N. Ambassador
Mohammed Al-Douri, who an
nounced the government’s accep
tance of the resolution, appeared
to be speaking to an international
audience when he said his gov
ernment had chosen “the path of
peace” and its acceptance had “no
conditions, no reservations.”
The Iraqi newspaper Babil,
owned by Saddam’s eldest son,
Odai, however, warned Thursday
that Baghdad’s crisis with the
United States “is not over yet and
may have just started.” It called
on Security Council members
France, Russia and China to sup
port Iraq.
The resolution, adopted unan
imously last Friday by the
Security Council, gives Iraq “a fi
nal opportunity” to eliminate its
nuclear, chemical and biological
weapons and the long-range mis
siles to deliver them. It gives in
spectors the right to go anywhere,
anytime, and warns Iraq that it
will face “serious consequences”
if it fails to cooperate.
Iraq’s cooperation will face its
next test with the arrival of the
advance team, led by chief U.N.
inspector Hans Blix, who is in
charge of biological and chemi
cal inspections, and Mohamed
ElBaradei of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, which is
in charge of nuclear inspections.
Ewen Buchanan, Blix’s
spokesman, said the team would
be reopening the office used by
inspectors before they left in
December 1998, installing new
computers, getting the old labo
ratory up and running, arrang
ing secure communications, get
ting vehicles, and preparing for
the arrival of helicopters.
Within a few weeks after in
spections resume, the United
Nations intends to have 80 to 100
inspectors in Baghdad, plus a
backup team of interpreters,
medics, logistics and communi
cations experts, laboratory per
sonnel and helicopter crews,
Buchanan said.
The inspectors are required to
report to the Security Council 60
days after resuming work. But if
Iraq fails to cooperate, the reso
lution orders inspectors to imme
diately notify the council, which
will discuss possible action.
By Dec. 8, Iraq must declare all
its chemical, biological and nu
clear programs. Any omissions
or false reports count as a black
mark under the resolution.
In the letter, Sabri accused
Bush and British Prime Minister
Tony Blair of fabricating “the
biggest and most wicked slander
against-Iraq” by claiming that it
had or was on its way to produc
ing nuclear weapons and had al
ready produced biological and
chemical weapons.
Under Security Council reso
lutions adopted after Iraq’s 1990
invasion of Kuwait, U.N. inspec
tors must certify that Iraq’s
weapons of mass destruction
have been eliminated. Only then
can sanctions against Iraq be lift
ed - and Sabri said the council has
a “lawful duty” to do this when
the inspectors find no banned
weapons
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